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Professor Valerie Tornini and her lab awarded multiple 2026 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards

Professor Valerie Tornini and her lab awarded multiple 2026 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards.

Six teams were awarded this year and Professor Tornini and her lab are part of two of those teams.

“Conserved Epitranscriptomic Signatures of Stress” and “Too Fast and Too Furious: Tradeoffs in Stress-Induced Accelerated Neurodevelopment”. These collaborative projects are related to neurobiology and changing ecosystems.

Congratulations to Christian Gerard Capuno, second-year M.S. Physiological Science student, for winning first place in the 2026 UCLA Grad Slam

Congratulations to Christian Gerard Capuno, second-year M.S. Physiological Science student, for winning first place in the 2026 UCLA Grad Slam. You may watch the presentation on Mind Over Matter: Understanding Sleep Disruptions in Myotonic Dystrophy via YouTube. On April 22nd Christian compete in Sacramento against champions from the nine other UC campuses in the systemwide competition.

Professor Barney Schlinger is awarded the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology’s (SBN) 2026 Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime Achievement award

Professor Barney Schlinger is awarded the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology’s (SBN) 2026 Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime Achievement award. The award serves two important purposes: (1) to honor the lifetime achievements of distinguished investigators in our field and (2) to educate junior members of SBN about the life and work of distinguished senior members, including their role in public education, outreach, and other efforts that exemplify good stewardship of our discipline.

Professor Eric Deeds Featured in the UCLA Newsroom

In the inaugural episode of “Science Interrupted,” a special series from the UCLA College’s “Tell Us What You Know” podcast, Eric Deeds, a professor of integrative biology and physiology, explains how his lab uses computational and mathematical tools to answer a fundamental question critical to tackling cancer, developmental disorders and other diseases: How do cells know what to become?